Foursquare Opens West Coast Office, Vows To Start Poaching Engineers

Brace yourself, San Francisco: Foursquare is coming to town, and it wants your engineers.

The most prominent startup in New York City just announced that it is opening a west coast office -- or, rather, taking over more of Square's office. Foursquare isn't shy about why it needs a Bay Area presence: "Despite growing from 5 employees to 35, we can’t expand as quickly as we want."

Part of competing for top developers is letting them live where they want, which, often enough, means in Silicon Valley. Now Square has given Foursquare enough space "to hire a full team of West Coast engineers."